Recently our good friend and associate Robert Becker restored and customized an Optigan 35012 for Rami Jaffee of Foo Fighters and Wallflowers fame. Robert works at Quilter Labs, and he arranged an unveiling and test drive for Rami at their office. Thanks to Rami for letting us film the occasion and post it here for [...]

Way back in the 90s, Pea was filmed for inclusion in a documentary about collectors by filmmaker Rodney Ascher. The film never got finished, but the footage has now resurfaced as a stand-alone episode of this podcast.

Very cool news! I knew that eventually an Optigan TV commercial would turn up! Youtube user chumrain writes this: Finally…one has been found (I know that several people have been searching high and low and haven’t come up with anything). Here is a long-lost television commercial for the Optigan, starring actor Carl Betz. This is [...]

Matthew Leonard has released “I Will Be A Good Boy And Promise To No Longer Hurt Myself,” and album of lo-fi pop/rock weirdness that features lots of optigan.com’s favorite instrument! Matthew sent me a copy and it’s really fantastic- strikes just the right balance between catchy and weird, lo-fi yet coherent production. Head on over [...]

Elsewhere on the Optigan site, you may have read about the prototype Optigans produced by Miner Industries after they took over production from Mattel. Pea has asked former Opsonar employees if they know what happened to the prototype stock, but all anyone can tell is that they were lost or destroyed in the 70s. However, [...]

Marcel Groot pointed us to this fantastic Optigan segment on Kunststof TV, a Dutch arts talk show. Marcel is seen first in the clip demonstrating the Optigan, and then we see Nico Brandsen live in the studio, totally shredding probably better than anyone has since Johnny Largo himself! Such a segment, especially one of this [...]